See cell phone on Wiktionary
{
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "cellular phone"
},
"expansion": "Clipped compound of cellular phone",
"name": "clipped compound"
}
],
"etymology_text": "Clipped compound of cellular phone.",
"forms": [
{
"form": "cell phones",
"tags": [
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "cellphone",
"tags": [
"alternative"
]
},
{
"form": "cell-phone",
"tags": [
"alternative"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {},
"expansion": "cell phone (plural cell phones)",
"name": "en-noun"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "American English",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Canadian English",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "New Zealand English",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Philippine English",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"_dis": "78 22",
"kind": "other",
"name": "English clipped compounds",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "91 9",
"kind": "other",
"name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "85 15",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages with 1 entry",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "88 12",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages with entries",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "94 6",
"kind": "other",
"langcode": "en",
"name": "Mobile phones",
"orig": "en:Mobile phones",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
}
],
"derived": [
{
"word": "cell phone lot"
}
],
"glosses": [
"A portable, wireless telephone, which changes antenna connections seamlessly during travel from one radio reception cell to another without losing the party-to-party call connection."
],
"id": "en-cell_phone-en-noun-w4DS40A5",
"links": [
[
"Canada",
"Canada"
],
[
"US",
"American English"
],
[
"portable",
"portable"
],
[
"wireless",
"wireless"
],
[
"telephone",
"telephone"
],
[
"antenna",
"antenna"
],
[
"seamlessly",
"seamlessly"
],
[
"travel",
"travel"
],
[
"cell",
"cell"
],
[
"call",
"call"
],
[
"connection",
"connection"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(chiefly Canada, US, New Zealand, Philippines) A portable, wireless telephone, which changes antenna connections seamlessly during travel from one radio reception cell to another without losing the party-to-party call connection."
],
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "cell"
},
{
"word": "cellular mobile"
},
{
"word": "cellular"
},
{
"word": "cellular telephone"
},
{
"word": "cellular phone"
},
{
"tags": [
"Indonesia",
"Malaysia",
"Myanmar",
"Singapore",
"South-Korea",
"mainly"
],
"word": "handphone"
},
{
"tags": [
"Australia",
"UK",
"mainly"
],
"word": "mobile"
},
{
"word": "mobile phone"
},
{
"tags": [
"humorous",
"slang"
],
"word": "sail foam"
},
{
"word": "wireless phone"
}
],
"tags": [
"Canada",
"New-Zealand",
"Philippines",
"US"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"audio": "LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-cell phone.wav",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/e/e4/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-cell_phone.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-cell_phone.wav.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/e/e4/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-cell_phone.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-cell_phone.wav.ogg",
"tags": [
"Southern-England"
]
}
],
"word": "cell phone"
}
{
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "cellular phone"
},
"expansion": "Clipped compound of cellular phone",
"name": "clipped compound"
}
],
"etymology_text": "Clipped compound of cellular phone.",
"forms": [
{
"form": "cell phones",
"tags": [
"present",
"singular",
"third-person"
]
},
{
"form": "cell phoning",
"tags": [
"participle",
"present"
]
},
{
"form": "cell phoned",
"tags": [
"participle",
"past"
]
},
{
"form": "cell phoned",
"tags": [
"past"
]
},
{
"form": "cellphone",
"tags": [
"alternative"
]
},
{
"form": "cell-phone",
"tags": [
"alternative"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {},
"expansion": "cell phone (third-person singular simple present cell phones, present participle cell phoning, simple past and past participle cell phoned)",
"name": "en-verb"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "verb",
"senses": [
{
"alt_of": [
{
"word": "cellphone"
}
],
"categories": [
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "English links with manual fragments",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
}
],
"examples": [
{
"bold_text_offsets": [
[
25,
36
]
],
"ref": "1996 September 25, Francis X. Clines, “Cool to Dole’s Campaigning, Talk Radio Tries to Start Fire”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 26 May 2015:",
"text": "The Republican insurgent cell phoned them hourly between stops from his recreational vehicle as he terrified Dole forces with a vociferously charged challenge.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"bold_text_offsets": [
[
92,
103
]
],
"ref": "2007 May 30, “Wharnsby: Next generation of star defenceman on hand in Anaheim”, in The Globe and Mail, Toronto, ON: The Woodbridge Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 24 May 2026:",
"text": "On a road trip, Getzlaf was sitting in the back of the bus and didn't like the movie, so he cell phoned up to the front to get the-then Calgary general manager Kelly Kisio to pop in another video.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"bold_text_offsets": [
[
2,
13
]
],
"ref": "2017 April 11, Associated Press, Kiri Blakeley, “'A lot longer than I expected to last': Survivalist Eric Frein was surprised that he was able to evade cops for 48 days after he 'murdered a state trooper in an ambush,' his journal reveals”, in Daily Mail, London: DMG Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 24 May 2026:",
"text": "'(Cell phoned) home twice to let them know I’m still alive. Got text saying I’m a suspect,' he wrote according to the Pocono Record.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"Alternative form of cellphone."
],
"id": "en-cell_phone-en-verb-jJW-fHFb",
"links": [
[
"cellphone",
"cellphone#Verb"
]
],
"tags": [
"alt-of",
"alternative"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"audio": "LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-cell phone.wav",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/e/e4/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-cell_phone.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-cell_phone.wav.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/e/e4/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-cell_phone.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-cell_phone.wav.ogg",
"tags": [
"Southern-England"
]
}
],
"word": "cell phone"
}
{
"categories": [
"English clipped compounds",
"English countable nouns",
"English entries with incorrect language header",
"English lemmas",
"English multiword terms",
"English nouns",
"English verbs",
"Pages with 1 entry",
"Pages with entries",
"en:Mobile phones"
],
"derived": [
{
"word": "cell phone lot"
}
],
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "cellular phone"
},
"expansion": "Clipped compound of cellular phone",
"name": "clipped compound"
}
],
"etymology_text": "Clipped compound of cellular phone.",
"forms": [
{
"form": "cell phones",
"tags": [
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "cellphone",
"tags": [
"alternative"
]
},
{
"form": "cell-phone",
"tags": [
"alternative"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {},
"expansion": "cell phone (plural cell phones)",
"name": "en-noun"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"American English",
"Canadian English",
"New Zealand English",
"Philippine English"
],
"glosses": [
"A portable, wireless telephone, which changes antenna connections seamlessly during travel from one radio reception cell to another without losing the party-to-party call connection."
],
"links": [
[
"Canada",
"Canada"
],
[
"US",
"American English"
],
[
"portable",
"portable"
],
[
"wireless",
"wireless"
],
[
"telephone",
"telephone"
],
[
"antenna",
"antenna"
],
[
"seamlessly",
"seamlessly"
],
[
"travel",
"travel"
],
[
"cell",
"cell"
],
[
"call",
"call"
],
[
"connection",
"connection"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(chiefly Canada, US, New Zealand, Philippines) A portable, wireless telephone, which changes antenna connections seamlessly during travel from one radio reception cell to another without losing the party-to-party call connection."
],
"tags": [
"Canada",
"New-Zealand",
"Philippines",
"US"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"audio": "LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-cell phone.wav",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/e/e4/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-cell_phone.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-cell_phone.wav.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/e/e4/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-cell_phone.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-cell_phone.wav.ogg",
"tags": [
"Southern-England"
]
}
],
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "cell"
},
{
"word": "cellular mobile"
},
{
"word": "cellular"
},
{
"word": "cellular telephone"
},
{
"word": "cellular phone"
},
{
"tags": [
"Indonesia",
"Malaysia",
"Myanmar",
"Singapore",
"South-Korea",
"mainly"
],
"word": "handphone"
},
{
"tags": [
"Australia",
"UK",
"mainly"
],
"word": "mobile"
},
{
"word": "mobile phone"
},
{
"tags": [
"humorous",
"slang"
],
"word": "sail foam"
},
{
"word": "wireless phone"
}
],
"word": "cell phone"
}
{
"categories": [
"English clipped compounds",
"English countable nouns",
"English entries with incorrect language header",
"English lemmas",
"English multiword terms",
"English nouns",
"English verbs",
"Pages with 1 entry",
"Pages with entries",
"en:Mobile phones"
],
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "cellular phone"
},
"expansion": "Clipped compound of cellular phone",
"name": "clipped compound"
}
],
"etymology_text": "Clipped compound of cellular phone.",
"forms": [
{
"form": "cell phones",
"tags": [
"present",
"singular",
"third-person"
]
},
{
"form": "cell phoning",
"tags": [
"participle",
"present"
]
},
{
"form": "cell phoned",
"tags": [
"participle",
"past"
]
},
{
"form": "cell phoned",
"tags": [
"past"
]
},
{
"form": "cellphone",
"tags": [
"alternative"
]
},
{
"form": "cell-phone",
"tags": [
"alternative"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {},
"expansion": "cell phone (third-person singular simple present cell phones, present participle cell phoning, simple past and past participle cell phoned)",
"name": "en-verb"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "verb",
"senses": [
{
"alt_of": [
{
"word": "cellphone"
}
],
"categories": [
"English links with manual fragments",
"English terms with quotations"
],
"examples": [
{
"bold_text_offsets": [
[
25,
36
]
],
"ref": "1996 September 25, Francis X. Clines, “Cool to Dole’s Campaigning, Talk Radio Tries to Start Fire”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 26 May 2015:",
"text": "The Republican insurgent cell phoned them hourly between stops from his recreational vehicle as he terrified Dole forces with a vociferously charged challenge.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"bold_text_offsets": [
[
92,
103
]
],
"ref": "2007 May 30, “Wharnsby: Next generation of star defenceman on hand in Anaheim”, in The Globe and Mail, Toronto, ON: The Woodbridge Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 24 May 2026:",
"text": "On a road trip, Getzlaf was sitting in the back of the bus and didn't like the movie, so he cell phoned up to the front to get the-then Calgary general manager Kelly Kisio to pop in another video.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"bold_text_offsets": [
[
2,
13
]
],
"ref": "2017 April 11, Associated Press, Kiri Blakeley, “'A lot longer than I expected to last': Survivalist Eric Frein was surprised that he was able to evade cops for 48 days after he 'murdered a state trooper in an ambush,' his journal reveals”, in Daily Mail, London: DMG Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 24 May 2026:",
"text": "'(Cell phoned) home twice to let them know I’m still alive. Got text saying I’m a suspect,' he wrote according to the Pocono Record.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"Alternative form of cellphone."
],
"links": [
[
"cellphone",
"cellphone#Verb"
]
],
"tags": [
"alt-of",
"alternative"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"audio": "LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-cell phone.wav",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/e/e4/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-cell_phone.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-cell_phone.wav.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/e/e4/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-cell_phone.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-cell_phone.wav.ogg",
"tags": [
"Southern-England"
]
}
],
"word": "cell phone"
}
Download raw JSONL data for cell phone meaning in All languages combined (5.8kB)
This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable All languages combined dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2026-06-21 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2026-06-01 using wiktextract (ade7ec3 and 7f4db16). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.
If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.